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- noun Plural form of
corbel .
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Examples
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On each of the corbels is a boldly carved scene from the career of S. Etheldreda; they commence at the north-west arch.
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"shouldered arches," as they are commonly called, though each merely consists of a flat lintel resting on corbels, which is not strictly an arch at all.
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It has painted orange stone corbels surrounding turquoise doors and windows and clay-red roof tiles.
'Chipmunks' Estate 2011
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Rare pair of corbels from Louisiana plantation house
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Lots of applied corbels, do-dads, and heavy molding on cabinetry.
Builders' Show: What's in and what's out in kitchen design 2011
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So church architects also designed the vestments and sanctuary furnishings, the carved corbels and delicate chapel lights.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols 2009
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Brightly colored and carefully manicured, the home's exterior almost looks like a house in a Disney movie: painted orange stone corbels surrounding turquoise doors and windows and clay-red roof tiles.
The House Built By Chipmunks Nancy Keates 2011
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Around the south door and on the remaining corbels stone blocks set into the tops of the walls is a lexicon of British symbolism, with some decidedly pagan entries.
Early medieval architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011
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The effect upon the eye is not monotonous, for a patient art has infinitely varied the combinations of pattern and the juxtapositions of color; while the depth of undercutting of the stucco, and the treatment of the bronze doors and of the carved cedar corbels, necessarily varies with the periods which produced them.
G. Roger Denson: From Mark Twain to Malcom X: Americans Discover the Great Mosques G. Roger Denson 2010
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The effect upon the eye is not monotonous, for a patient art has infinitely varied the combinations of pattern and the juxtapositions of color; while the depth of undercutting of the stucco, and the treatment of the bronze doors and of the carved cedar corbels, necessarily varies with the periods which produced them.
G. Roger Denson: From Mark Twain to Malcom X: Americans Discover the Great Mosques G. Roger Denson 2010
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